Constance Debré

Constance Debré is the daughter of journalist François Debré (1942-2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942-1988), granddaughter of Michel Debré (1912-1996), former Prime Minister of General de Gaulle, and of Jean Ybarnégaray (1883-1956), minister of the Vichy regime and resistance fighter. She is also the niece of the statesman Jean-Louis Debré.

She was 16 when her mother died. She studied at Lycée Henri-IV, then law at Panthéon-Assas University. She is a graduate of class 99 (E99) of the ESSEC Business School.[1] Married in 1993, she had a son in 2008.[2] A lawyer by profession in 2010, she accompanied her father in 2011, charged in the case of fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris.[3] Recognized for her eloquence, she was elected second secretary of the Conference of Lawyers of the Paris Bar in 2013.[4]

In 2015, she finally left her husband and her job to live with a woman and pursue a full-time career as a writer.

• Un peu là, beaucoup ailleurs, Monaco-Paris, France, Le Rocher, 2004, 107 p. ISBN 2-268-05191-9, Prix Contrepoint, 2005
• Manuel pratique de l'idéal. Abécédaire de survie, Monaco-Paris, France, Le Rocher, 2007, 156 p. ISBN 978-2-268-06130-6
• Play Boy, Paris, Éditions Stock, 2018, 160 p. ISBN 978-2-234-08429-2
• Love me tender, Paris, Éditions Flammarion, 2020, 192 p. ISBN 978-2-08-147173-3
• Nom, Paris, Éditions Flammarion, 2022, 170 p. ISBN 978-2-08-151593-2